According to Cyclingnews.com, George Hincapie claims that Frank Andreu hasn’t told the whole truth about his relations to doping. The American claims that Andreu taught him to use doping.
He states that it hit him, when he realised that Frank Andreu used doping and that he is not blaming Frank.
"Frankie was my mentor in the peloton," Hincapie said, and talked about the first time he chose to use illegal performance-enhancing drugs. "For me, it was a powerful moment that I won't forget. It was like, 'Oh, now I'm going to have to do that, too.' It's not like one of those rumors or the whispers you hear. When you actually see it and your good friend is doing it and it's someone you look up to, it really hits you. Not that I'm blaming Frankie."
Frank Andreu was one of the strongest critics against Lance Armstrong, but according to Hincapie, Andreu also was a part of the system.
In today's article, Hincapie hinted that Andreu was a hypocrite for coming out so strongly against Armstrong. "I know Frankie was part of the whole system as well," Hincapie said. "Once he left cycling, he was very opinionated about the system, as was [his wife] Betsy. For me, it was hard to accept that. It was hard to understand why he was so opinionated about it when he was part of it.
"I'm not denouncing them because they went through a lot of hard times. But a lot of what actually happened was lost in all this. A lot of what Frankie did, I don't know if she (Betsy) even knows."
Cyclingnews.com talked to Betsy Andreu, the wife of Frank Andreu, and she denies the story that George Hincapie tells.
"Frankie never taught George to dope and never became the junkie that he and Armstrong became," Betsy Andreu said. "Frankie's life in the sport is in the USADA report - there's nothing more to it as Hincapie and Armstrong would like people to believe."
But even though she denies the story, George Hincapie is now happy about telling the truth and that it is out.
"Now that the truth is out, everyone knows we were all compliant," Hincapie said. "We were all part of a screwed-up sport. Just because one of us stopped before the others doesn't make him a better person."
"You can't justify it and so for me, that was hard. What I did was wrong, but at the time, I didn't realize it was wrong. I was just doing it."
According to Cycingnews.com, Frank Andreu says that he is just as guilty as everybody else.
"I'm just as guilty as some of the others. Even though I didn't do near as much as a lot of the other guys did, which is a crazy amount of PEDs. If you go in and rob a bank for a nickel or you go in and rob a bank for a million dollars with grenades and firearms and you kill people, you're still both bank robbers. It's just one person did it to the extreme. But you're both still considered bank robbers," Andreu said.
Betsy Andreu says that the Andreu couple is the credible witnesses in the SCA lawsuit against Armstrong and they can still be trusted.
"Who says you can't right a wrong," Andreu said.
"We are the ones who came out looking good in ["The Armstrong Lie"] - we are the credible witnesses in the SCA case and the qui tam suit, and they just want to smear us."
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